HOLLAND BREDA. 40 STUIVER 1625 - NGC XF-Details Holed

  Besieged by the Spanish under the command of Ambrosio Spínola, Marqués de los Balbases, July 1624 to 5 July 1625.

Breda, a city in the Spanish Netherlands, was one of the lands of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, an important figure in the fight for Dutch independence in the Eighty Years' War. Maurício de Nassau, son of Guilherme, was in command of the city when it was besieged in August 1624 by Spanish troops commanded by Ambrosio Spinola. The well-defended city eventually fell to the Spanish in June 1625. Not long after the fall of Breda, however, the tide of war began to turn against Spain. The Dutch and their allies became increasingly powerful, and in 1637 Prince Frederick Henry of Orange retook the city. In 1648, the Dutch United Provinces were officially declared independent of Spain in the Treaty of Münster.